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Contents: Volume 17, Number 2 February 2002   [Index by Author]      Other Issues:

I. Editorial Features

       Editorial Comments

       Invited Comment

       Dialysis and Transplantation News

       Personal Opinion

       Rapid Communications

II. Scientific Papers

       Original Articles

III. Clinical Reports

       Case Reports

       Interesting Case

IV. Educational Features

       Nephroquiz for the beginner

       Teaching Points

       Images in Nephrology

       Ultrasonography Lesson

V. Varia

       Letters

       Announcements

       Errata

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I. Editorial Features

Editorial Comments:

Andrzej Wiecek, Franciszek Kokot, Jerzy Chudek, and Marcin Adamczak: The adipose tissue—a novel endocrine organ of interest to the nephrologist
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 191-195; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.191 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Gunter Wolf: ‘The road not taken’: role of angiotensin II type 2 receptor in pathophysiology
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 195-198; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.195 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Barry I. Freedman: End-stage renal failure in African Americans: insights in kidney disease susceptibility
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 198-200; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.198 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Diego Brancaccio, Ciro Tetta, Maurizio Gallieni, and Vincenzo Panichi: Inflammation, CRP, calcium overload and a high calcium–phosphate product: a ‘liaison dangereuse’
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 201-203; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.201 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

William G. Goodman: Calcimimetic agents and secondary hyperparathyroidism: treatment and prevention
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 204-207; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.204 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Adeera Levin: The role of anaemia in the genesis of cardiac abnormalities in patients with chronic kidney disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 207-210; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.207 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Nic Veys, Wim Van Biesen, Raymond Vanholder, and Norbert Lameire: Peritoneal dialysis catheters: the beauty of simplicity or the glamour of technicality? Percutaneous vs surgical placement
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 210-212; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.210 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Abdulla A. Al-Khader: The Iranian transplant programme: comment from an Islamic perspective
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 213-215; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.213 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Invited Comment:

Mauro Rathaus and Jacques Bernheim: Oxygen species in the microvascular environment: regulation of vascular tone and the development of hypertension
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 216-221; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.216 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Dialysis and Transplantation News:

Ahad J. Ghods: Renal transplantation in Iran
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 222-228; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.222 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal Opinion:

Joseph A. Coladonato, Lynda A. Szczech, Eli A. Friedman, and William F. Owen, Jr: Does calcium kill ESRD patients—the skeptic's perspective
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 229-232; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.229 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Rapid Communications:

Giorgio Coen, Paola Ballanti, Alessandro Balducci, Santo Calabria, Maria Stephanie Fischer, Ljiljana Jankovic, Micaela Manni, Massimo Morosetti, Eleonora Moscaritolo, Daniela Sardella, and Ermanno Bonucci: Serum osteoprotegerin and renal osteodystrophy
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 233-238; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.233 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

II. Scientific Papers

Original Articles:

Alaa A. Sabry, Mohamed A. Sobh, William L. Irving, Anna Grabowska, Bart E. Wagner, Samantha Fox, Gura Kudesia, and A. Meguid El Nahas: A comprehensive study of the association between hepatitis C virus and glomerulopathy
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 239-245; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.239 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ilpo Ala-Houhala, Matti Koskinen, Tapani Ahola, Aimo Harmoinen, Timo Kouri, Kaija Laurila, Jukka Mustonen, and Amos Pasternack: Increased glomerular permeability in patients with nephropathia epidemica caused by Puumala hantavirus
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 246-252; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.246 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Andras Tisler, Andreas Pierratos, John D'Arcy Honey, Shelley B. Bull, Laszlo Rosivall, and Alexander G. Logan: High urinary excretion of uric acid combined with high excretion of calcium links kidney stone disease to familial hypertension
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 253-259; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.253 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Pedro Iglesias, Juan José Díez, M José Fernández-Reyes, M Auxiliadore Bajo, Abelardo Aguilera, Javier Méndez, Rosa Codoceo, and Rafael Selgas: Effects of short-term recombinant human growth hormone therapy on plasma leptin concentrations in dialysis patients
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 260-264; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.260 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Wu-Chang Yang, Chwei-Shiun Yang, Chun-Chen Hou, Tsai-Hung Wu, Eric W. Young, and Chen H. Hsu: An open-label, crossover study of a new phosphate-binding agent in haemodialysis patients: ferric citrate
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 265-270; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.265 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Holger Hinrichsen, Gerd Leimenstoll, Gorch Stegen, Henning Schrader, Ulrich R. Fölsch, and Wolfgang E. Schmidt: Prevalence of and risk factors for hepatitis G (HGV) infection in haemodialysis patients: a multicentre study
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 271-275; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.271 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Lars Pape, Juergen Strehlau, Thomas Henne, Kay Latta, Bjoern Nashan, Jochen H. H. Ehrich, Juergen Klempnauer, and Gisela Offner: Single centre experience with basiliximab in paediatric renal transplantation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 276-280; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.276 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

III. Clinical Reports

Case Reports:

Ali Riza Odabas, Ramazan Cetinkaya, Yilmaz Selcuk, Cemal Gundogdu, M. Derya Onuk, Isa Ozbey, and Unsal Coskun: AA amyloidosis complicating an inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 281-282; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.281 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Emile P. Mohammed, Gopalakrishnan Venkat-Raman, and N. Marley: Is trauma associated with acute rejection of a renal transplant?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 283-284; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.283 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Edward J. Kingdon, Rosalynd E. Johnston, Rachel Pawson, H. Grant Prentice, Mike N. Potter, Aine Burns, and Stephen H. Powis: ANCA +ve vasculitis after autologous PBSC transplantation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 285-287; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.285 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Satishkumar A. Jayawardene, John D. Taylor, C. Geoff Koffman, and Ian C. Abbs: Acute allograft pancreatitis associated with renal allograft rejection
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 288-290; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.288 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Interesting Case:

Nauman Tarif, Ahmed H. Mitwalli, Saleh A. Al Samayer, Hassan Abu-Aisha, Nawaz A. Memon, Fathia Sulaimani, Awatif Alam, and Jamal S. Al Wakeel: Congenital renal arteriovenous malformation presenting as severe hypertension
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 291-294; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.291 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

IV. Educational Features

Nephroquiz for the beginner:

Jonathan Smilie and Robert Walker: A painful lower limb in a patient with a nephrotic syndrome
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 295-296; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.295 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Marcus Brand, Bastian Dehmel, Stephan Cristow, and Ralph Kettritz: A strange case of hypokalaemia
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 297-299; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.297 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Teaching Points:

Mogamat Razeen Davids, Yeouda Edoute, Jean-Pierre Mallie, Daniel G. Bichet, and Mitchell L. Halperin: Body compartment volumes and composition after giving a vasopressin antagonist: changes are revealed by a tonicity balance
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 300-303; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.300 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Gunter Wolf and Rolf A. K. Stahl: Remembrance of things past: tumoural calcifications in a haemodialysis patient
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 304-307; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.304 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Images in Nephrology:

Rasheed A. Balogun, Nancy D. Adams, Joseph Palmisano, Harold Yamase, Irfans Chughtai, and Andre A. Kaplan: Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, proteinuria and nephrocalcinosis associated with renal tubular acidosis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 308-310; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.308 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ultrasonography Lesson:

Anna-Maria Nahm, Daniel Ernesto Henriquez, and Eberhard Ritz: Renal cystic disease (ADPKD and ARPKD)
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 311-314; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.311 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

V. Varia

Letters:

Patricia Van der Niepen, Karin Janssen van Doorn, Kaat Van den Houte, and Dierik Verbeelen: Nimesulide and acute renal failure caused by oxalate precipitation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 315-316; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.315 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Christopher W. McIntyre, Richard J. Fluck, Jan G. Freeman, and Stewart H. Lambie: Use of albumin dialysis in the treatment of hepatic and renal dysfunction due to paracetamol intoxication
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 316-317; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.316 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Claudio Angelini, Salvatore Badalamenti, Giovanna Lunghi, Maurizio Sampietro, Silvia Finazzi, Claudio Ponticelli, and Giorgio Graziani: Evidence against hepatitis C virus trapping in dialysis membranes
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 317-318; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.317 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Lasse Gunnar Gøransson and Harald Bergrem: Disappearance of measurable mycophenolate mofetil (Cell Cept^®) in a patient with a renal transplant and an ileostomy
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 318-319; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.318 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Hyun Chul Kim, Seung Yeup Han, Sung Bae Park, and Soo Jhi Suh: Parkinsonism during cyclosporine treatment in renal transplantation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 319-321; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.319 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Venkataraman Ramanathan, Rumeyza Kazancioglu, Simin Goral, Stephen Dummer, and J. Harold Helderman: Isolated pleural involvement by Cryptococcus in a kidney–pancreas transplant recipient
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 321-322; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.321 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Announcements:

: Announcements
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 323-325; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.323 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Errata:

Claude Level, Philippe Chauveau, Yahsou Delmas, Catherine Lasseur, Gaëlle Pellé, Evelyne Peuchant, Danièle Montaudon, and Christian Combe: Procalcitonin: a new marker of inflammation in haemodialysis patients?
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 326; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.326 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Tilman B. Drüeke: SOFT TISSUE CALCIFICATION IN CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 327-329; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.327 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Tilman B. Drüeke: Foreword: Extraskeletal calcifications in patients with chronic renal failure
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 330-331; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.330 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Paolo Raggi: Effects of excess calcium load on the cardiovascular system measured with electron beam tomography in end-stage renal disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 332-335; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.332 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Isidro B. Salusky and William G. Goodman: Cardiovascular calcification in end-stage renal disease
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 336-339; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.336 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Naseem Amin: The impact of improved phosphorus control: use of sevelamer hydrochloride in patients with chronic renal failure
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 17: 340-345; doi:10.1093/ndt/17.2.340 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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